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Authors
Affiliations
1 Department of Community Medicine,
PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Physiology, MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, H.P., IN
3 Department of Pharmacology,
MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, H.P, IN
4 Department of Community Medicine,
MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, Himachal Pardesh, IN
5 WHO, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 6, No 4 (2015), Pagination: 364-368
Abstract
Tobacco use is today's major public health concern in our country, which can be largely reduced by primordial and primary prevention. According to NFHS III, 57% of men and 10.8% of women use any kind of tobacco in India. To determine the prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among the rural community of block Beri, district Jhajjar, Haryana. This cross-sectional study was carried out during the period of September 2012 to August 2013.Multistage random sampling was used in this study. A sample size of 1080 was included in the study Appropriate statistical tests were used for analysis. The overall prevalence of current tobacco use was found to be 26.9% (tobacco-smoking: 26.4%; tobacco-smokeless: 2.7%) and it was found to be higher among males as 46.7% (tobacco-smoking: 46.3%; tobacco-smokeless: 4.4%) than7.2% in females (tobacco-smoking: 6.5%; tobacco-smokeless: 0.9%). Our study confirmed the high burden of tobacco use in rural areas and reiterated the need to address these issues comprehensively as a part of NCD prevention and control strategy.
Keywords
Prevalence, Tobacco, Socio-Demographic, Rural, Haryana.
